Chapter 307: Capture Charles Alive

"I can't be sure!" Charles answered straightforwardly: "But we can only take a gamble now!"

Speaking of this, Charles squatted back in front of the map, and after a little hesitation, he gave a battle plan: "Continue to attack from the front to attract the enemy's attention. Six amphibious landing ships have arrived. Arm them and cover the second echelon along the road."

"Follow the road?" Tijani exclaimed, looking at Charles in disbelief. Isn't this too obvious?

Before this, amphibious landing ships also drove onto the road. After all, the road is very close to this line of defense.

But that was because the troops occupied the trenches to provide them with the necessary cover.

"Only the front armor of the amphibious landing ship can stop bullets, Colonel." Tijani reminded: "If the enemy has defense on the road, even if there is only one platoon, we may suffer heavy casualties..."

"Do you think the enemy has time to deploy troops on the road?" Charles interrupted Tijani, his voice full of confidence: "No, General. They just arrived and organized defense in a hurry, and the troops are not enough to extend to the road."

Seeing that Tijani was still hesitating, Charles added: "We must be quick, otherwise the enemy will soon fill this loophole!"

Tijani gritted his teeth and nodded: "I listen to you, who made you Charles!"

Charles sighed in his heart. Tijani has good abilities in all aspects, especially his comprehensive knowledge of sea and land operations, but he lacks a little courage.

In this situation, not taking risks means death, and taking risks still has a glimmer of hope. What else is there to consider? Hesitating for a second is a crime!

Fortunately, he didn't waste much time. The commando was organized with an order: two infantry companies with more than 400 people, led by a captain battalion commander named Alphonse to implement the penetration.

Tijani also equipped Alphonse with a backup radio for easy communication.

Charles said: "After crossing the enemy's defense line, don't worry about anything. Occupy the trenches all the way to the sea. Do you understand?"

"Understood, Colonel!" Alphonse replied.

After Alphonse left with the troops, Tijani said: "Don't worry, he is the best battalion commander of the 105th Regiment. He knows what to do."

Charles was speechless. It seems that you, the commander, don't know what to do!

...

Bahar lay behind the ruins and quietly observed the offensive of the French army.

In his impression, the French army always charged at the enemy under the cover of artillery fire regardless of life and death, and fought in groups in dense formations.

But the team of soldiers in front of him was a little different. They were in a scattered formation and used everything that could be covered to cover their advance. Sometimes they lay in the craters and sometimes hid behind the trees.

After hiding, they raised their rifles and fired to cover the other team's leap forward.

This tactic of mutual cover and alternating advance surprised Bahar a little, which made it difficult for the three Maxim machine guns Bahar brought to play a role. Because when they were firing, the enemy was often hiding in a concealed place.

Therefore, although the battle was fierce, the enemy's casualties were not large. On the contrary, many people of the Ottoman army as the defender died under the enemy's mortar, and two machine guns were blown up because of the exposure of the position.

It is worthy of Charles's troops. Bahar secretly praised them in his heart. No wonder they can advance here at such a fast speed.

However, Bahar felt more and more at ease as he fought.

It was obvious that the battle was developing in a favorable direction for the Ottoman army.

"My goal is not to defeat you." Bahar put away the telescope and muttered to himself: "I just need to stop you, and when the reinforcements arrive, I will win!"

Bahar turned his head and looked behind him, and more and more troops came to reinforce.

They were soldiers of the 69th Infantry Regiment. They were once at a loss in the trenches. They knew that the enemy was coming, and they could judge from the gunshots that the enemy was on the side.

But they could not leave their posts without receiving orders, so they could only wait there with their rifles.

So, everyone was repeating the experience of others: one or two hundred people faced the offensive of five or six hundred enemies, the defense line collapsed, and finally fled.

It was like dominoes, one pushed another, and the entire defense line was almost destroyed by Charles without any effort.

Until Bahar arrived and adjusted the defense direction in time.

Watching the soldiers add two heavy machine guns to the defense line, Bahar breathed a sigh of relief, and the string in his heart gradually relaxed.

This battle is almost over.

Charles failed to capture the entire defense line, and the victory belonged to the Ottoman Empire.

Then Bahar thought, would Charles be in this army? If the enemy's landing force could be surrounded, could Charles be captured?

Bahar's eyes lit up, and he looked in the direction of the enemy with expectation.

If this can be done, it will not only win this battle, but also drive the gradually weakening Ottoman Empire to a new peak!

"Attention everyone!" Bahar shouted with great enthusiasm: "Charles is in front, defeat them and capture Charles alive!"

The soldiers were stunned at first, but suddenly their morale was boosted, and they shouted one after another: "Defeat the enemy and capture Charles alive!"

The shouts even drowned out the sound of gunfire and reached the other side.

...

The translator passed the message to Tijani, who looked at Charles with a smile and joked: "I envy you, Colonel, you are so popular everywhere!"

"Should I wave to them?" Charles asked back.

Tijani laughed: "They don't recognize that it is Charles' hand."

Charles stuck his head out to look at the battlefield and said to Tijani: "It's time to start!"

Tijani nodded, turned around and ordered the signalman: "Action!"

The signalman immediately used flags to tell Alphonse, who was already ready in the direction of the road.

...

At that time, the Ottoman army fought more and more bravely.

Perhaps knowing that Charles was on the opposite side, they even began to counterattack the French army.

The Ottoman army did have the capital to counterattack: Bahar's guard company plus the gathered defeated soldiers, plus the troops transferred from the rear trenches, they already had nearly a thousand people with a manpower advantage.

At the same time, Bahar also believed that the counterattack would help boost morale because it was telling everyone that they were winning.

However, just as Bahar launched the attack, a burst of machine gun fire suddenly came from the direction of the road.

Turning his head, he saw that a troop was advancing along the road under the cover of the "tank".

They were very fast, and the speed of the "tank" should be more than ten kilometers per hour, and the soldiers ran madly behind them.

The machine guns on the "tank" fired fiercely at the soldiers blocking the front, and then quickly broke through and penetrated to the side and rear.

Bahar thought to himself that it was not good. The trench behind him had been emptied.

The enemy only needed to run into the trench and then they could organize a line of defense behind him...